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Patented .lune 28,1881.

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- s UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCEQ4 JAMES MCBRIDE, OF ITHACA, NEW YORK.

HOLDER AND PULVERIZE-R FOR SUGAR, SALT, Soc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,385, dated. June 28, 1881.

Application tiled May 16, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES MCBRIDE, of Ithaca, New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented an Improved Sugar. Pulverizer and Holder and Mixer for Feed and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to pulverize and mix sugar, salt, and other articles, and to hold them in a suitable vessel, which shall exhibit them in a pulverized, livened-up state for sale. As a feed-mixer, my device mixes and holds the feed until used. For this purpose I make an oblong cylindrical vessel, preferably loctagonal in shape, with one or more of its sides removable, or hinged as a lid, and with one or more rows of teeth on its inside, against which and the octagonal sides the lumps that the changes of the atmosphere, the packing in the original casks, or other causes .have produced are thrown and crushed, and the whole mixed; or in the said vessel various qualities or substances a-re mixed together.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; and Fig. 3 is an inside View of the lid, showing the arrangement of the rows of teeth.

In the figures, a is the octagonal cylinder,A

supported o n the frame b by shaft-journals c, and turned by the crank d, applied, as in Fig. l, to the end of one of the journals c, or, as seen in Fig. 2, to the pinion-shaft j' of the cogwheelj. One of the sides, e, is hinged and opens as a lid, and to it is fixed series of teeth f, which extend into the cavity of the cylinder. All internal parts are made preferably of wood. The teeth are for the purpose ot' crushing the lumps of the article contained in the cylinder and mixing them, when the cylinder is revolved, as is apparent will be the case bythe rapid action when the crank is on the shaft c, in mixing lighter1 articles, vas well as crushing the heavier articles by their fall on them when a slower revolution is had by the cog-wheels.

To use my machine, I put a barrel of sugar or like article into the opened lid, then shutY the lid, and revolve the cylinder. Its capacity being greater than its contents, the mixing or crushing takes place by the rotation and falling on the teeth and against the octagonal sides and it livens up and whitens sugar.

My design is to have a separate cylinder and frame for each quality of sugar, and when neatly made they are not ill-appearing holders of the sugar, the lid opening readily and displaying the sugar in the described pulverized and livened-up state to be lifted out and weighed.

As a feed-mixer, the machine is placed in a barn or other suitable place, and the cut hay, straw7 and ground grain or other articles mixed together and used out of it.

To tix the cylinder in the best position for retailing, thereis beneath the cylindera hinged stop, h, on the cross-bar i of the frame b, which is turned down when the cylinder is to be revolved,'and up when the lid is to be held upward.

Salt, as well as sugar, is an article that the daily changes of the atmosphere tend to make lumpy. The turning of the cylinder every morning as the selling commences corrects this lumpiness and enables the seller the better to display aud sell his goods.

The joints of the lid are, if necessary, tightened with cloth, rubber, or other elastic substance, so that the contents shall not sift out as the cylinder revolves, and the lid is not only hinged, but clasped fast when the revolution takes place.

The rows of teeth f on the lid e are arranged as seen in Fig. 3. The upper row has an angle at the middle of the lid,into which the article falls as revolutiontakes place, and graduates the fallv and makes the pulverization more complete. A second row of teeth, f, isjust below the first row, and has an open space in its center. Other teeth,f, may be used on other sides of the cylinder, if desirable 5 but if so it is requisite that they shall be on the upper side of the cylinder, as

shown in Fig. 1, that the teeth may be out of crushing and mixing salt, sugar, and other 3. The combination of the cylinder a, frame articles, supported bythe frame b, and adaptb, teeth fj", lid e, shaft with journals c, cog- 1o ed to and constructed for holding and selling wheels j j', and stop h, constructed and arsaid articles, as shown and set forth. ranged and used as set forth.

2. The combination of the cylinder a, lid e, JAMES MGBRIDE. angular row or rows of teeth f, frame b, jourl Witnesses: nals and shaft 0, and crank d, constructed and S. J. PARKER,

operating as set forth. J. (j. KING. 

